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FIRST, really ... not spam!
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For anyone too lazy to view source, here's the missing image: https://thedailywtf.com/images/201012/errord/IMAG0216.jpg
This comment is really not spam (hint: links to this site are probably not spam).
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"I caught this ad on late-nite television," wrote Alasdair, "I better call to claim my £000's!"
is missing the image for me. Not that I don't already know what it's going to be...
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Yeah, that "Install program on D:, save space on C:" doesn't usually work with MS products is not actually news. I recall the same issue with Office.
capio: I had capio for dinner.
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I copy the image link for the 000s, and this is what I get:
https://thedailywtf.com/images/201012/errord/IMAG0216.jpg%20/%3E%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3Cp%3E%C2%A0%3C/p%3E%3C/blockquote%3E%3Cp%3E%3Ca%20name=
Seriously?
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I think the wireless printer guy was too quick to post. The cable is to provision your printer via PC to work on your wireless network in the first place. I own the model printer in question, and configuring its print server with '<', '>' and 'OK' would be madness.
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Maybe the cable for the "wireless install" is something newfangled. Perhaps the "wired wireless device". You never know these days.
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The lexmark printer one isn't quite a WTF. We've got the same printer at home and you use it to tell the printer (via a PC) which wireless router to connect to, WPA settings, etc. A cable's a lot cheaper than building the config stuff directly on the printer I guess.
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And then you unplug the cable once it's setup and (probably) lose it...
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Great meta-WTF with the missing image - I'm sure you did that deliberately...
The Visual C# Express one is annoying but understandable - Visual C# Express is installed on the D:\ drive as specified, but the obscene number of prerequisites get installed on your C:\ drive which is non-negotiable. Maybe TRWTF is the fact that the prerequisites are an order of magnitude bigger than the software itself.
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Exactly what I came to say. Without a big screen and a keyboard on the printer, how else do you intend to get the printer on your network? I'm not one to come crying about TRWTF, but...
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Thew Visual C# installer needs to install common components, required to be present on the drive containing %WINDIR% and %PROGRAMFILES%, that's where the gross of the size comes from.
TRWTF is that you're installing an Express product and expect to be taken seriously as a programmer with your submission.
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It's a standard USB cable. You can always just buy another one. Or put it in your box o' cables in the basement (everyone has one of those, right? I mean, you never know when you're going to need that circa-1992 serial cable again)
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TRWTF is that they accidentally put a USB cable in the bag.
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£000's is common (on junk mail at least) and I find it easily understandable. Think of some pounds, add 000 and you get some thousands of pounds. No, it doesn't parse precisely. No, no-one cares.
Target audience for the ad isn't the smartest bunch, after all. but they'll understand better than the submitter, apparently.... :-P
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With the printer, notice that it is a wireless installation cable. It is used to install the printer, that is, to set up the wireless settings from a PC. It is pretty dumb that you need to plug your wireless printer into your PC before you can wirelessly print with it, since that rather suggests you could just be using a wired printer; but it's a rule of modern electronics that if a thing can be done, it will be done without anyone stopping to ask "is there actually any point to this"? It's the same reason we have solar powered keyboards (no, I'm not making this up - apparently Logitech believe that outdoor keyboard use is a perfectly common thing).
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Last time I checked, Best Buy Canada was Canada's Best Buy
BestBuy owns FutureShop, but its not Best Buy, each operates on a different sales model and is operated completely independent of Best Buy.
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FTFY
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"...and what's even worse, wrote Daniel, my 'wireless' printer has to be plugged into the wall or it won't turn on at all."
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He never said Best Buy owned them. He put that there so that we U.S.ers would know what kind of store it was.
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What? Another fake frits? I guess the featured comments that were their in yesterdays article was enough to get all the morons to start imitating me.
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You of course need to use scissors to make the printer completely wireless. The ends are probably joined together just so you don't accidentally lose one end of the cable.
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Well caught, NullPointerException.
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Really? It's pretty dumb that you might put your printer somewhere, take your laptop, plug it in, configure the printer, and then have wireless printing from that laptop anywhere in the house? You're right, I could just tether my laptop to the printer and make it a real crappy desktop, but I think that's probably NOT why people buy wireless capable printers.
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I'm so confused... [image]
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Regarding the wireless printer coming with a cable. What folks seem to be missing is that, yes, it seems a bit silly to send a cable with a printer that is wireless. But the real WTF (and is part of the joke in the text) is that up until now regular wired printers never came with a cable. So now I buy a printer that doesn't need the cable and I get one??
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Everybody, sing with me: I am frits the eighth I am. Frits the eighth I am, I am. ...
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Funny, I always felt Best Buy Canada was Canada's Best Buy.
For me it's actually a hard choice:
-Best Buy: No commission, and have to verbally tell a cluster of uninterested, chatting employees to get the hell out of my way so I can physically get to the 100 dollars worth of product I want to buy.
-Future Shop: Commission, have a cluster of employees surround me with "advice" until they find out I know more than they do and I'm not "low hanging fruit", at which point they are nowhere to be found when I actually do have a question.
Last time I went to Future Shop I asked about the specs for a notebook, and the employee directed me towards a Kiosk that had internet access so I could look it up myself. Then another distrustful employee walks by and says with a condescending fake-wink: "staying out of trouble?"
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I guess people are just lazy, then. I had no trouble configuring our own wireless printer/scanner/copier device (Canon Pixma MP620) BY HAND, and our wireless network's access key is 26 characters, all in uppercase and using hex letters.
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That's not really fair. Plenty of us have had to install crap for lusers.
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And yes, most printers still need a cable to set up specific things for the wireless config, especially if you have non-standard wifi-settings. At least most Canon and HP printers I've seen needs this, or is at least much easier to set up using the cable than the onscreen-menus on the printer.
Well... the "solar powered" keyboard you're talking about works just the same way "solar powered" calculators do - ie, it works just fine with normal indoor lighting - and having a keyboard that never needs a change of batteries, or being hooked up or placed in a cradle for charging might appeal to some.Admin
Actually, "fake frits" is a meme. Although "frits is a meme" may become a meme. Dang kids.
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... and if you'd actually read the product description, Logitech says it can charge up perfectly fine from regular office lighting. This makes it a wireless keyboard which never needs replacement batteries or be connected to a charger.
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I think someone has printer-envy... sad really; it's not like size matters.